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 Astana, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 24, 2009 
Kazakhstan's first satellite, KazSat-1, has been put into orbit for a 'space burial,' the country's mission control reported on Friday. The $100 million communications satellite, built for Kazakhstan by Russia's Khrunichev Space Center, was put into orbit approximately 36,000 km above the Earth in June 2006. Featuring eight Ku-band transponders for landline communications and four ... read more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 19, 2009The Russian government will heavily invest in the development of the country's aerospace industry, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. "The development of the aircraft industry and space exploration is certainly one of our priorities," Putin said at the opening of the MAKS-2009 air show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. According to the government, financing of the aircraft ... more
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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 19, 2009The German eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) X-ray telescope is to start searching for black holes and dark matter in 2012, using seven electronic 'eyes'. On 18 August 2009, executive board members of the German Aerospace Center and the Russian space agency Roskosmos signed a detailed agreement during the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 18, 2009For the third time since 2005, the German Aerospace Center is taking part in Russia's national aerospace exhibition, the MAKS Aviation and Space Salon. The exhibition is being held at Zhukovsky, 40 kilometres southeast of Moscow. From 18 to 23 August, DLR will showcase itself as Germany's national research establishment at a joint stand with the German aerospace industry. ... more  
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Aug 18, 2009India and Russia have finished the design of a second unmanned lunar orbiter to be sent to the Moon in 2011-2012, the Indian Express newspaper said on Monday. The paper quoted Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as saying in Bangalore on Sunday: "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here." ... more |
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Seoul (YNA) Aug 05, 2009South Korea said Tuesday it may have to again postpone the launch of its first space rocket because further examination of a critical combustion test conducted last week is needed. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said that while Russia successfully completed the "hot fire test" last Thursday, some "technical issues" still have to be clarified, requiring more time. ... more  
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 31, 2009Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress I-67 after a five-day free flight has docked to the International Space Station (ISS). All the dynamic operations leading to rendezvous and docking were performed under supervision of the Technical Management (Technical Manager is the President of RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev, Designer General V.A. Lopota) Flight control specialists and members of ... more 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 30, 2009Russia's Progress M-67 cargo spacecraft successfully docked on Wednesday with the International Space Station (ISS), Russian Mission Control said. A Russian Soyuz-U rocket with the freighter lifted off on Friday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. The Progress took five days instead of the usual two to reach the ISS because of a delay in the arrival of U.S. space shuttle En ... more |
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